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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:19:41 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: od driver
Message-ID:  <19990204071941.31271@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199902032131.OAA40124@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:31:24PM -0700
References:  <14008.47444.55701.124427@silver.sms.fi> <199902032131.OAA40124@panzer.plutotech.com>

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As Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> I'm not sure, though that the cd9660 filesystem code can support
> writes.  You may have to use a standard ufs filesystem on the CD for
> that.  I just tried a few experiments to see if I could get a cd9660
> filesystem to mount read-write (using the vn device), and I wasn't
> able to get it to work.

R/W mounting is probably not that big of a problem, but the entire
driver is IMHO not written with the idea in mind that data on the
medium might change at some point while the medium is mounted.  So
this will probably end up in a rewrite of the cd9660 driver.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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